Church of England Primary School
Foodbank challenge is now closed. Totals are being counted and the winning class will be revealed on Wednesday in assembly. Thank to everybody for your incredible contributions. The collection is greater than we could have ever expected.
Read More Amazing Response for the Foodbank!…to enjoy a story! Years 5 and 6 have now finished their first class novel, ‘Letters From the Lighthouse’ by Emma Carroll. This story was set in WW2 and helped the children to further develop their understanding of evacuation, code breaking and what life was like during this period of history. One child even said […]
Read More You’re never too old…Year 5 were invited to a robotics event in the Barclays office in Canary Wharf today. They worked collaboratively in pairs to program a robot using code. Their final challenge was to design a code which would mean that the robot followed a black line as quickly as possible. There were heats and a very […]
Read More Year 5 at a Barclay’s robotics event“That was much better than I thought it would be!” High praise indeed from one of our oldest students who was honest enough to admit that they were not particularly looking forward to a half-term of dance enrichment. Our mixed group of Year 5 and 6 children were nothing short of awesome in our first […]
Read More Dance Enrichment raises the roofYear 5 have started to read ‘The Arrival’ by Shaun Tan. This is a beautiful, wordless picture book and we have used it to inspire short poems. Today we edited them and used the computers to type up our poems. Next week we will read part 2!
Read More ‘The Arrival’ in Year 5This week, as part of our Black History Month celebrations, Year 5 have been learning about The Empire Windrush. We discussed why people may have moved from the Caribbean to the UK after WW2 and talked about some of the difficulties as well as the positives. As part of our learning, we read a poem […]
Read More The Empire WindrushAs part of Black History Month celebrations, the children made healthy vegetarian Jamaican patties. They worked in groups to create a shortcrust pastry, cut and cooked the vegetables for the filling, and secured them with a fork crimp. We also learnt about the history of Jamaica and how the Cornish Pasty influenced this Jamaican classic!
Read More Year 5 & 6: Jamaican Patties 🇯🇲After learning about the importance of bomb shelters during WW2, the children were set the task to create their own versions using a range of materials. They worked in pairs to plan and make model shelters and evaluated the structural successes and failures throughout the project so they could learn different techniques from one another. […]
Read More Year 5 & 6 Anderson SheltersToday, we got the opportunity to visit a WW2 warship. We learnt about the struggles merchant ships had when transporting goods to the UK and had a go at trying some of the roles mariners took when onboard ship.
Read More Year 5 & 6 at the HQS WellingtonWe are fortunate to have a dedicated team of librarians from Y5 this year. They have been fully trained by Mrs McGregor, our reading leader and they have already been busy covering, stamping and sorting books and generally keeping the library in good order.
Read More Awesome librarians